Crime and Punishment (1970)
September 28, 1970
Drama
3h 41m
Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-law student, kills an old pawnbroker and her sister, perhaps for money, perhaps to prove a theory about being above the law. He comes to police attention through normal procedures (he was the victim's client), but his outbursts make him the prime suspect of the clever Porfiry. Meanwhile, life swirls around Raskolnikov: his mother and sister come to the city followed by two older men seeking his sister's hand; he meets a drunken clerk who is then killed in a traffic accident, and he falls in love with the man's daughter, Sonia, a young prostitute. She urges him to confess, promising to follow him to Siberia. Will he accept responsibility?
Cast & Crew
- Director
- Lev Kulidzhanov
- Raskolnikov Georgi Taratorkin
- Porfiry Petrovitch Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy
- Avdotya Romanovna Viktoriya Fyodorova
- Marmeladov Yevgeni Lebedev
- Luzhin Vladimir Basov
- Dmitry Razumikhin Aleksandr Pavlov
- Yelizaveta Ivanovna Lyubov Sokolova
- Svidrigailov Efim Kopelyan